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<snip> One of the cleverest demonstrations of this effect was a study published last year in Harvard’s Quarterly Journal of Economics. The researchers, Tim Groseclose and Jeffrey Milyo, devised a scale for measuring the slant of news reports by keeping track of which think tanks — liberal or conservative — were quoted most often.
The researchers found that The Washington Times and Brit Hume’s evening newscast on Fox fell on the conservative side of the scale, while all the other news media outlets they studied fell on the liberal side. The surprising result — to liberals, at least — was that Fox was closer to the ideological center than the Big Three evening newscasts as well as all the major newspapers and newsweeklies.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I guess it never occurred to these "researchers" that FOX has no need to quote think tanks... they simply pull the crap they spew right out of Karl Rove's ass. BTW, I wonder which think tanks Tim and Jeffrey work for now?
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